The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-10-21
ABOUT PEOPLE AND THINGS.

FRENcHsfAN says: When your friend laughs
it is for him to tell you the cause of his merri-
ment: when your friend cries. it is for you to
ascertain the reason of his grief.
CHICAGO Business: Superstitious people
claim that a death is sure to follow the bowling
o dog. It depends a good deal, we should
So y. on the kind OF whack one gets at the dog
hartley CAMPBELL is said to be rapidly re-
covering his reason. and will, it is beloved soon
be able to leave the asylum. His physicians say
that his ailment is not paresis but indamma ton
of the brain.
THE Rev. mr.. Hume, about whom there has
been much contention in the American board
of commissioners for foreign MISSIONS has been
most warmly welcomed back to his field Of
m Missionary labor.
''YEs, all the fellows taking great inter-
est in our military organizations" said George
to Clara. I've got brand new arms" ''Well.
George" said she. with significant smile, II
think you needed them."
THE statement to the effect that Miss JEANNE
Youmans has been managing the Popular Science
Monthly, now going the rounds of the press, is
erroneous Since the death of Prof. Edward L.
Youmans the magazine has been under the
of Dr. w. j. Ioumans. his brother.
THE Hon. John r. Tucker, of Virginia coun-
sci for the Anarchist cut-throats of Chicago is
great buttermk drinker He thinks it is the
hest beverage in the world for use while making
a speech. and saws the Hon. Henry A. Wise
taught him to drink it in 1885, at the beginning
of his public career.
HAVING exported their pest of sparrows to
this country. the English are complaining Of the
introduction of the American red-wineed star
ling into their own fields They say that the
bird. with its sharp bill. kills both small birds
and those considerably larger than itself, and
lnf1lcts damage upon the grain fields.
MINIATURES founder. Solomon Juneau fur
trader and frontiersman, was recently COM
memorated by a statue in that city. Juueau's
brother, when he heard that the statue repre-
sented Juneau with gun in his right hand.
said: ''Thats not like brother SOL He never
had gun. He was always afraid of gun"
GEN. A G. EDWARDS, of ST. Louis formerly
United States sub-treasurer there. celebrated
his sevepty-ffth birthday anniversary on Satur-
day last az did think he said on that COCA
sion, II would write TO jeff Davis and remind
him that he and | are the only survivors of the
gay of boys who started together in life
with our commission from West Point in 1881
and 1892"
SOME OF the pecuiarities OF the Boston Di-
rectory to light in the columns of the
Globe of that city. OF course there plenty
of Beans in Boston, Egg. eight Pyes. a num-
Der of Onions and one Crumb Besides these
there are three Bones. also Salt and jelly.
Seven Beers are found, and Coffee, Milk and
Teas. There is one Chicken to three Goslings
and Hawk. Boston also has a pair of Stock
ings, Sock, one Cravatt. pair of Mittens
and four Collars. Three Hats and one Wigg
complete the outfit.
MRS. PRocToR. widow of Barry Cornwall. is
the most interesting old lady in London society.
She is eighty seven years of age. but ''coes
everywhere" as the phrase is, and is eminently
popular for her w.t. good spirits and converse
tional powers. Her father the famous
Basil Montague Mrs. Proctor lives in a hand
some fiat in the Albert mansions. Charles
Dickens used to say that when he wanted ito
brighten up" he went TO Mrs Proctor She
has known intimately the famous men OF Eng
land for some generations past, and her men,
orY is stocked with in teresting facts.